Final Notes
If you want to get fancy, you can edit your pictures a bit; throw on some filters, some quotes, touch them up. Whatever feels right for expressing your love. You can also go super basic and just use standard screencaps of them. You might want to draw some art of your own to illustrate your points and perspective or how you see the characters.
You might not want to do your manifesto as a piece of text! You might want to present it as a powerpoint! You can put the slides on the page then type what you would say or you can record a video and host that on your site (or on another site and just embed it); find what feels good to you and your presenting style.
If you’re talking about a book or other media without pictures, don’t feel put off by any of this. You can use quotes, link to clips, draw your own art, whatever feels right to you.
Remember you can include links! If there’s bonus material you want to show people, you can link to it or credit people for recovering particular content. It might be a good idea to back-up these links to Archive.org, however, in case they disappear for any reason.
It’s your manifesto, on your site; do what feels right for you.
Shrines
Shrines are kind of a similar note to the manifestos, and you may see the terms used interchangeable on fansites.
To me, a shrine might be a page that is less informative. I would say that can be an invite to assume knowledge of the source material that you maybe wouldn’t with the manifestos. That said, you might want to give the basics to get you started and make sure everyone is warmed up.
Shrines are also a great way to get more personal with things and talk about your personal experiences and what it means to you. It’s best to start small and focus on those things that are close to you, and then branch out to cover more. You can talk about your interpretations and what you love about a particular character.
If it helps, you can make a list of all the subjects you might want to cover, that way you can create an action plan of what to write or what graphics you need to hunt down.
You can approach it like a wikia, where you can give the history, plot, characters, alternate versions, character’s personality, relationships, a gallery, external links.
You might want to add a quiz!
You might use it to talk about OCs, display your virtual pets, talk about the personalities you developed for them. You could make a shrine to all your self-shipping and all the characters you’ve ever shipped yourself with. You could make yourself a whole wedding themed page with inspiration from people’s wedding websites.
Cringe is dead, baby!
Approach your shrine in a way that feels comfortable to you. Take it as a space that is purely yours, free of rules.
One of my personal favourite things about shrines is picspams. I love the aesthetic of putting a ton of images and, if you’re confident doing so, using CSS to move them around the page so it looks almost like a scrapbook of what you loved so much. If you’ve done bullet journalling, I think of it like a virtual version of that.